Defends the Gospel of Jesus Christ and confessional Reformed Anglicanism. The term "Reformed" refers to the five solas of the Reformation and the five points of Calvinism. The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, 1662 Book of Common Prayer, and the Ordinal constitute the Anglican Formularies, the doctrinal standards of Anglicanism. The Lambeth Articles 1595 and Irish Articles 1615 are Reformed confessions. Isa 1:18,Rom 12:1, 2

About Me

In God's providence my doctrine has changed from Pentecostal Arminianism to Calvinism and Reformed Anglicanism. My Reformed standards are the Anglican Formularies (39 Articles of Religion, 1662 BCP, the Homilies), with the Westminster Standards and the Three Forms of Unity. Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, KY, 1995, M.Div. Southeastern University, Lakeland, Florida, 1991, B.A., Cum Laude. [Nota Bene: All e-mails to me are considered in the public domain. I reserve the right to post them on the blog. Anonymous comments may or may not be posted at the discretion of the blog owner.]
Anglo-Catholicism and Arminianism are heresies.
I view Amyraldianism as a departure from Reformed theology and I disagree with the three points of common grace and the "gracious offer". I do post or link to sites that disagree with my views at times and having those sites on my blog does not constitute an endorsement of everything said on those sites. I generally endorse the presuppositional apologetics of Gordon H. Clark.
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Martyred for the Gospel

The burning of Tharchbishop of Cant. D. Tho. Cranmer in the town dich at Oxford, with his hand first thrust into the fyre, wherwith he subscribed before. [Click on the picture to see Cranmer's last words.]

Collect of the Day

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent; Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Carl
Trueman: “I am relatively comfortable describing myself as Evangelical
in the UK and Australia, where it speaks of a basically orthodox
Protestant Christianity with an evangelistic mindset. … In the USA,
however, I myself shy away from the term. There it tends to carry
connotations of very conservative politics and activism in the so-called
‘culture wars’.

Funny
but I refuse to call myself an Evangelical for very different reasons.
Here in the US and in the UK and even in Australia the Evangelical
movement is mostly heterodox so that everyone and their brother claims
to be an orthodox Christian, including the Anglo-Papists and the
Arminians. The truth is the only genuinely orthodox Christianity is
classical Calvinism and perhaps the original Reformed Anglicans who were
also Calvinists during the time of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer.

Furthermore,
Trueman's remarks reveal that his political allegiances are with those
who include abortion and homosexuality in their political platform. So
Trueman's hypocrisy shines through. Like all liberals he pretends to be
neutral but all the while takes the opposing side in the culture war.
What? Do we theological and political conservatives look stupid or
something?